Who has an iPhone 3G with a decent battery?

So far my iphone 3G 16gb after a full chrage gave me just over 3 hours usage which is consider to be awful. Lots of other users have also been having simmilar problems. Form what I have been reading it looks like everyone is having this issue In which case I'm going to ask for a refund. I just want assurance that there are some people out there that are getting a decent 5-7 hours usage out of their phones.

Also if I take my iphone into a apple store in the Uk could they fix the battery or replace it for me ?

So far my iphone 3G 16gb after a full chrage gave me just over 3 hours usage which is consider to be awful. Lots of other users have also been having simmilar problems. Form what I have been reading it looks like everyone is having this issue In which case I'm going to ask for a refund. I just want assurance that there are some people out there that are getting a decent 5-7 hours usage out of their phones.

Also if I take my iphone into a apple store in the Uk could they fix the battery or replace it for me ?

Click to expand...

the only thing i have been able to use mine for is a Wifi ipod with GPS
no signal

Mine gets about 3 hours or so with internet browsing, using apps, watching music videos, etc. I can make it last longer while listening to music with the screen turned off, but other than that I'm stuck with charging my 3G 2x a day.

im getting to 5 easily actually. I use 3G outside daily and when im at home/office wifi is always connected and yeahh i do turn off location tracking when not in use through the settings so yeah. Battery's been great for me

im getting to 5 easily actually. I use 3G outside daily and when im at home/office wifi is always connected and yeahh i do turn off location tracking when not in use through the settings so yeah. Battery's been great for me

Click to expand...

That sounds about right, cause i got about 5-7 hours usage on the old iPhone.

After hearing all the battery stories I attempted to drain mine before heading home today (which I had to recharge at least somewhat for). Yesterday it ran four about 7 hours before I got the 20% warning. Usage included hours and hours of Safari over WiFi, downloading and playing with apps from the store, GPS and about an hour of call time.

Towards the end I switched 3G back on and upped the brightness to try to run it down faster but in the end I gave up and went to bed. After waking up and playing some Super Monkey Ball and some more surfin' it finally hit 10%. So I got about 7.5 hours of use on the iPhone's first cycle.

All-in-all I'm pretty content with my new iPhone and the battery seems comparable to my 2G, so I'm happy.

I'm just gonna have to reduce the brightness to slightly below half way, turn 3G off when I don't need to use it, and definitely have Location Services off. Right now I'm restoring my iPhone to the latest 2.0 software since mine came with the old one. Hopefully these changes will make a good improvement.

I leave mine plugged in until I leave the house. Yesterday I had a good 7 hours before it even hit 50% with constant SMS, Tap Tap Revolution, internet, email and phone use. Brightness is set at medium, volume on.

My battery isn't lasting as long as I am accustomed, either. Of course, it is the same phone and battery but it has the 2.0 software with location services on and lots of new software toys (PhoneSaber, for one).

I was worried on my iPhone. Not sure if I ever fully charged it. The first 2 days have been worrisome.

Always at half battery (16gig on 3G network) before the day was half over. First day I got 20% warning. Keep in mind, maybe only 3 minutes of calls, and just trying out features and games, showing it off for maybe a total of an hour and half, no really long sessions beyond those.

But I finally let it charge for a very long time last night to make sure it was full. And I restored it to get the newer firmware.

So last night I spent about 20+ minutes browsing the app store over wifi, about 5 minutes in cube runner 3d game, a little bit of tinkering. Then it was idle until morning. I've tried to call someone 5 times. I cleaned my house this morning while playing music over headphones for about 35 minutes. While watching an hour show, during the ads I played motionX-poker, the 3D dice game, with vibrate and music off, only SFX. That session was atleast 40 minutes.

After all that, about 3pm in the day right now, only appears to be a quarter or less drained (hard to tell from that small icon).

So it seems to be working better today, if it was like earlier, I'd expect it to be half gone or more. I hope that it was because I did a much longer charge for the first time to really break in the battery, maybe even the new firmware. But I'm going to keep track of it. I don't want to have to always charge it two to three times in a day to be sure I get through the day like before.

Extra note. I've always had the auto brightness on and still is now, but this day I had the brightness slider a little under half, where I might of had it a little over half before.

MacRumors attracts a broad audience
of both consumers and professionals interested in
the latest technologies and products. We also boast an active community focused on
purchasing decisions and technical aspects of the iPhone, iPod, iPad, and Mac platforms.